The Western Australian election will be held on Saturday, March 13. Polls close at 9pm AEDT. I am not aware of any WA polling conducted since the blowout 68-32 lead for Labor in a Newspoll that I covered two weeks ago.
If replicated at the election, a 68-32 two party result would be over ten points better for Labor than at the November 2018 Victorian election, which was regarded as a Labor landslide.
In recent Australian electoral history, Labor was crushed at the March 2011 NSW election, and at the March 2012 Queensland election. In NSW 2011, the Coalition under Barry O Farrell won the two party vote by 64.2-35.8, and Labor won just 20 of the 93 lower house seats.
The battle for Windermere heats up as veteran independent Ivan Dean retires after 18 years
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FebFebruary 2021 at 8:13pm
Retiring Upper House member Ivan Dean hopes to push through a rise in the smoking age before he leaves.
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After 18 years in the Legislative Council, the sitting member for Windermere Ivan Dean is bowing out.
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Ivan Dean has endorsed former police officer and at-risk youth worker, Will Smith, who plans to run as an independent
The Liberals also plan to run a candidate and Labor has endorsed former Bass MHR Geoff Lyons
A political analyst says it is unknown whether Mr Dean s endorsement will translate to votes
Author: Adrian Beaumont
(MENAFN - The Conversation) With less than three weeks left until the March 13 Western Australian election, the latest Newspoll gives Labor a 68-32 lead, two-party-preferred. If replicated on election day, this would be a 12.5% swing to Labor from the 2017 election two party result.
Analyst Kevin Bonham describes the Newspoll result as scarcely processable and says it is the most lopsided result in Newspoll history for any state or federally.
Primary votes were 59% for Labor, up from 42.2% at the 2017 election, 23% for the Liberals (down from 31.2% in 2017), 2% National (5.4%), 8% Greens (8.9%) and 3% One Nation (4.9%). This poll was conducted February 12-18 from a sample of 1,034.
What Winter Was Like the Year You Were Born
By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News
On 2/6/21 at 9:00 AM EST
The United States has seen a wide range of winters over the past century everything from warm, mild years where folks could stroll leisurely through parks in February, to turbulent, frigid seasons where people had to hunker down inside. There were years where blizzards swept in unannounced, covering huge swaths of the country in blankets of snow, while other years brought hurricane-force winds to cities and towns across the nation.
The Midwest region is particularly susceptible to cold winters, especially in states like Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Michigan. In these places, residents lie in the path of both the low-pressure systems that originate in Alberta and travel southward (sometimes called Canadian clippers ) and the shortwave low-pressure systems that come from the southwest, traveling northeast toward the Great Lakes region (also cal
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Controversial âpreference whispererâ Glenn Druery faces new probity concerns after landing a taxpayer-funded role working for state upper house Liberal Democrats MP David Limbrick while running his own lucrative cash-for-votes business.
Mr Drueryâs business brings micro parties together in a bloc to preference each other and leapfrog better-supported parties. The practice helped Mr Limbrick get elected at the 2018 poll with just 0.8 per cent of the primary vote.
Glenn Druery appearing before a Senate Voting Reform Committee hearing in 2016.
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An investigation by
The Sunday Agerevealed on the weekend that in a previous staff job for then senator Derryn Hinch, Mr Druery charged taxpayers almost $155,000 in travel and other expenses in a period of just over two years.